The five episodes that encompass the grotesque beauty that is TellTale’s The Walking Dead game will be put on disc and handed out to retail stores. I think this is an awesome deal. Some gamers don’t have internet and may want to experience The Walking Dead and this will be the perfect opportunity for that. Not to mention, it will add a couple extra bucks in the pockets of those that work at TellTale Games.

“We believe there is no better company than Telltale to bring complex narrative IP to interactive entertainment,” senior vice president of marketing Steve Allison said in a statement to Polygon. “Our first episodic game series based on The Walking Dead has sold nearly 1.7 million episodes to consumers in just our first 8 weeks with no signs of slowing down. We have three more episodes to go with Episode 3 targeted for August as we confirmed yesterday. Following the digital release of our fifth episode we will also be coming to North American retail shortly thereafter and this will not be the last The Walking Dead game series that we do.”

In other words, there will be a second season of The Walking Dead. I’m super excited for this. No downloadable game has ever got me as excited as The Walking Dead does. So what do you guys think of all the news in the last couple of days that regard The Walking Dead series?